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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.Sinclair, George

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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.

Name: Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.
Author: Sinclair, George

Sinclair, George

Occultism; Superstition; Witchcraft

from Haddington-market with horse-corn, and met with the devil at
Knockhills, who bid me destroy Thomas Anderson, who was riding with
me; and because I refused; he threw the horse-corn off the horse.”
This Thomas Anderson was a christian man. It is well remembered
yet, that she went the next morning timeously, and brought home her
oats, which had lain there all night. “And moreover,” says she, “I
cheated my master when I went to the market to buy oats; for I made
him believe I gave more money for the boll than I did. And do not
you remember, Isabel Murray, that one night, you coming out of the
minister’s house, got a sore knock on the back with a stone? It was
I, but it was not for your own sake, but for your goodman’s sake,
William Craig, who threw me one day into the Jawhole, and abused me.”
She told this woman likewise, that she would fain have spoken with
her master. After this conference, the woman began to be afraid,
and came running home in haste.—During all this time, there was no
person in the family that met with any hurt or skaith, or saw any
thing, such, was the Lord’s kindness to them all. One Isabel Elliot
a witch, confessed to the minister, that many nights his house and
yard would have been beset with witches. The same woman asked the
devil one time, Why they could not get amends of him? He told her, he
was locked up.—This woman, Isabel Heriot, was never reputed a witch,
nor delated by any for witchcraft; some jeeringly would have called
her so. She was indeed ignorant of religion, notwithstanding of the
many excellent opportunities she had for gaining knowledge. Next her
riding and travelling from far places in the country, in the night as
well as in the day time, and coming home late without fear, and her
stunkard ill nature bred suspicion. If she had confessed a compact
with the devil, before her death, it might have been a good ground;
but this trouble happening to the family immediately after her death,
and her apparition being seen, gave all occasion to say she was a
witch. But these things do not infallible conclude. But what could
her apparition be? It behoved to be either her real body, informed
and acted by the devil, (for her soul could not be brought back)
or only the devil taking upon him her shape and form, acting and
imitating her to the life; which is more probable.

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